Fiscal Note & Local Impact Statement
127 th General Assembly of Ohio
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BILL: |
H.B.
441 (including AM5513) |
DATE: |
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STATUS: |
SPONSOR: |
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LOCAL IMPACT
STATEMENT REQUIRED: |
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STATE FUND |
FY 2009 |
FY 2010 |
FUTURE YEARS |
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State Bureau of Motor
Vehicles Fund (Fund 4W4) |
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Revenues |
- 0 - |
- 0 - |
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Expenditures |
One-time negligible
programming costs |
- 0 - |
- 0 - |
Note: The state
fiscal year is July 1 through June 30.
For example, FY 2009 is July 1, 2008 – June 30, 2009.
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State revenues. The bill will have no direct
effect on state revenues.
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State Bureau of Motor Vehicles Fund. It appears that the Department of Public Safety's Bureau of Motor
Vehicles (BMV) is likely to incur a relatively inexpensive one-time programming
cost in order to ensure that the granting of limited driving privileges is
properly recorded and electronically available to law enforcement. From LSC fiscal staff's perspective, this
one-time cost might best be termed negligible and would most likely be paid
from BMV's main financing source—the State Bureau of Motor Vehicles Fund (Fund
4W4).
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LOCAL
GOVERNMENT |
FY 2008 – FUTURE YEARS |
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Courts and Clerks of
Courts (divisions of courts of common pleas handling juvenile traffic
offenses) |
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Revenues |
- 0 - |
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Expenditures |
Potential minimal cost to
process driver's license information |
Note: For most local governments, the fiscal year is the calendar year. The school district fiscal year is July 1 through June 30.
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Local revenues. The bill will have no direct
effect on revenues of the state's political subdivisions.
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Courts of common pleas and affiliated clerks of courts. LSC fiscal staff's research suggests that it should not require
significant time and effort for the court of common pleas to consider granting
limited driving privileges and, if granted, the affiliated clerk of court to
issue the appropriate documentation and notify the BMV. Assuming this was true, and one were able to
quantify that time and effort in terms of dollars and cents, that cost would
generally be minimal at most.
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Overview
For the purposes of this fiscal
analysis, the bill most notably:
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Permits,
under certain circumstances, a court to grant a probationary driver's license
holder, who is subject to operating restrictions as a result of a moving
violation, limited driving privileges.
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Requires
the court to issue the person noted in the immediately preceding dot point
appropriate documentation setting for the privileges granted.
State fiscal effects
State revenues
The bill will have no direct
effect on state revenues.
State expenditures
Under current law, the
Department of Public Safety's Bureau of Motor Vehicles receives driver's
license information from courts and maintains it in an electronic form that is
intended to be readily available to law enforcement and other appropriate
authorities. Presumably, at the time a
court informs BMV that the holder of a probationary driver's license has
committed a moving violation and subject to operating restrictions pursuant to
current law and practice, subsequent to the bill's enactment, a court would
also inform BMV that it has granted that person certain limited driving
privileges.
In discussions with LSC
fiscal staff relative to the bill's state fiscal effects, BMV staff noted that
it would likely incur a relatively inexpensive one-time programming cost in order
to ensure that the granting of limited driving privileges is properly recorded
and electronically available to law enforcement. From LSC fiscal staff's perspective, this one-time cost might
best be termed negligible and would most likely be paid from BMV's main
financing source—the State Bureau of Motor Vehicles Fund (Fund 4W4).
Local fiscal effects
Local revenues
The bill will have no direct
effect on revenues of the state's political subdivisions.
Local expenditures
LSC fiscal staff's research
suggests that it should not require significant time and effort for the court
of common pleas to consider granting limited driving privileges and, if
granted, the affiliated clerk of court to issue the appropriate documentation
and notify the BMV. Assuming this was
true, and one were able to quantify that time and effort in terms of dollars
and cents, that cost would generally be minimal at most.
LSC fiscal staff: Sara D. Anderson, Senior Budget Analyst